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    How to tell if a easter egger roo carries the blue egg gene?

    OMG, I just saw someone post an identical rooster on Craigslist a few days ago! Note, we did exactly what you are describing. We crossed a homozygous blue-egg rooster with our flock to get green and blue eggs. Took 7 months to see the first results. Two of the daughters that laid amazing hues of...
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    Blue Ameraucana hen cross Delaware Roo

    Whiting True Blue and Prairie Bluebell are BOTH hybrids. They are crosses of Araucana with Leghorn through various generations done in labs at both of the large hatcheries that created them. WTB is the McMurray high production blue-egg layer, and Prairie Bluebell is the Hoover equivalent. If you...
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    Blue Ameraucana hen cross Delaware Roo

    I've been breeding for egg color for a year and have some experience. Basically, egg color theory is very similar to art color theory. Your has has blue egg genetics, but the rooster has a very pale brown egg genetics for the Delaware breed. If you mix blue + light brown, you will get a light...
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    Blue Eared Breeds?

    We have multi-gen Olive Eggers who have the light blue earlobes shown in the photos in this thread. They all lay hues of green. Their father is a homozygous rooster with blue-egg genetics. Many are a BC1 blue back cross with the moms being Olive Eggers.
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    Isabel Ameraucana x ISA Brown Cross w/ Chick Colors

    I have a thread on crossing my Buff Ameraucana/Cream Legbar hybrid roo (in my profile pic) with my ISA Brown hens and also Blue Olive Eggers. I hatched chicks the past year and just posted my results in my thread. I wanted to achieve the same as you with the ISA Brown hens, which is daughters...
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    Sexlink Hybrid question: ISA Brown hen x OE roo = Sexlink chicks?

    Just wanted to update this thread. I have since hatched various groups of chicks from: #1. Buff Ameraucana/Cream Legar Hybird roo x ISA Brown hen #2. Buff Ameraucana/Cream Legar Hybird roo x Blue Olive Egger hen The chicks resulting from: #1 pairing were reddish rooster, cream/white hen with...
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    Olive Egger chicks: males?

    @WingItRanch: I'm tagging you, too. See attached full-body photo of the 6-week-old chick in question. Father is shown in my profile pic and mother is a Blue Olive Egger. I was praying this was a pullet because it's the only chick that was black for the 1st hatch of this roo. Body shape is more...
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    Silkie won't get off the nest.

    Silkies are notoriously broody. I've heard of some hens going broody for a year or more...What you described are classic broody signs: 1. stop laying; 2. are in a trance and scratch around and then run back to the nest box; 3. loss of feathers on the stomach. We had 2 Australorps go broody this...
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    So I got gifted some chicks because hurricane Helen hit us super hard, took out our old barn and half our home. Idk what they are or their gender

    I thought they were A. Cemanis, but there are a few other breeds that look similar. I'm just so unfamiliar with sexing them given that the comb and wattles are so dark. I don't know if it just done by height/size for the age instead.
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    So I got gifted some chicks because hurricane Helen hit us super hard, took out our old barn and half our home. Idk what they are or their gender

    4507 and 4509 are both male....combs are dark pink for the age. They look under 8 weeks old. Note: I'm not familiar with the dark-skinned breeds enough to be able to sex them since I go by the hue of the comb/wattles.
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    Olive Egger chicks: males?

    @WingItRanch @The Moonshiner Thanks for your responses 3 weeks ago. The 'Blue Olive Egger' is now 7 weeks old. Attached is an updated photo of the brother of the same age who is Buff in color. And the sister from the same hatch group...
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    Olive Egger chicks: males?

    One is 6 weeks old and the other is 7 weeks old. "A" hasn't crowed yet, but the comb and wattles look very pink for the age... "B" has crowed twice in 7 weeks, but the comb is still pale in comparison with the brother (pictured in 1st comment below) who has a dark red, larger comb. I was hoping...
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    4-week-old Blue Olive Eggers: male or female based on comb?

    Mom is a Blue Olive Egger and dad is a Buff Ameraucana/Legbar hybrid. Hatched the same day. Is this a female pea comb for a 4-week-old? Another hatchmate (Buff one in 2nd photo) has the same pea comb that is larger and dark pink, so clearly male. I just though this shape pea comb was always...
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    Comment by 'flockofdovz' in article 'Guide to Letting Broody Hens Hatch and Raise Chicks'

    Good article, but I want to add: We just had a broody hen raise 4 chicks she hatched from eggs that were not hers. The chicks just turned 5 weeks old. Tonight before everyone roosts, she made it clear she no longer wanted them sleeping in the coop with the older hens. She chased and pecked them...
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    Sexlink Hybrid question: ISA Brown hen x OE roo = Sexlink chicks?

    Thanks for your in-depth explanation! We no longer have the cream OE rooster, but we kept his brother, the Buff Ameraucana hybrid. Our eggs finished hatching and we ended up with 2 ISA Brown hybrids and 2 OE hybrids. Of the OE hybrids, one looks identical to the cream OE rooster and the other...
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